Welcome to Northeast State Community College. We know you have a choice in colleges and universities, and we are excited that you selected us for your higher education experience.

We pride ourselves on creating a warm, welcoming and compassionate learning environment. Because of our dedicated faculty and staff, Northeast State has one of the highest retention and graduation rates in the state. In addition, our job placement rate tops at 90%. For those students who plan to continue their education with one of our partnering schools, you will be happy to learn that our graduates regularly meet or exceed critical performance measures through competency exams, major field tests, academic program reviews, and licensure exams.

Northeast State has articulation agreements with several four year colleges, and all of the public four year universities through a program called Tennessee Transfer Pathways (TTP). I encourage you to work with your college advisor if you plan to attend one of these schools once you complete your degree or certificate with us. Throughout the year, Northeast State invites representatives from four-year colleges and universities to assist you in your plans to transfer. The Kingsport Center for Higher Education at Northeast State at Kingsport houses offices for representatives from Tusculum, Milligan, King College, Lincoln Memorial University, and the University of Tennessee. In addition, East Tennessee State University has classes in Kingsport and Bristol.

An initiative at Northeast State, called STEP (Strategies for Teaching Excellence Program), focuses on helping students learn more effectively. Instructors are utilizing research-based instructional strategies to improve student learning and more actively engage students in the learning process. To improve employability skills, students learn to take responsibility for their own learning, actively engage in the learning process, work cooperatively with other students, and implement higher order thinking to solve problems. These strategies assist students in setting, monitoring, and pursing learning goals; encourage them to take the initiative to find solutions to answers on their own; show them how to learn in a team environment, as required by the workplace; and help them to relate what they have learned in the classroom to their life, career, and any new situation.
Northeast State offers many support services to help you meet your goals. Please visit the learning centers located on the Blountville campus as well as centers located at the Northeast State teaching sites in Bristol, Kingsport and Elizabethton if you need tutoring, advising, or other academic and student support services.

As you begin or continue your academic journey, please remember several important items:

Visit with your academic advisor at least once a semester to make sure you are on track for graduation.

Register early each semester in order to get the courses you need and to develop a schedule that works best for you.

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